so i feel that i -- yeah, it's a risk that i'm willing to take. i am willing to take it because the jury, there's 12 people there. and, yes, they either are going to feel sorry for her or feel sorry for me. i don't know which one it's going to be. supposed to hit it again, bunky. >> life is a gamble in general. you don't know what tomorrow may bring forth. or i might just be able to be, hey. you can't find nothing on this man. all of this stuff is inadequate puffed up charges. more than likely, the jury will be able to see this too. >> for de'arborne, who is facing an additional charge of false imprisonment, a guilty verdict could equal as much as 16 years. >> i have faith in god. the justice system is man's law. and that's a good thing. hopefully they upheld it. but i have a great god that i serve. and you know what, it's a miraculous god and a righteous god and i keep my faith in him, not just what man can do.

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notorious institutions, san quentin state prison. our cameras spent months documenting life on the inside. where gangs, drugs and sheer boredom make up a violent mix. this is lockup: san quentin extended stay. as the oldest prison in california, san quentin is steeped in a violent history. taking in and distributing inmates from 17 counties, its criminal population changes almost every day. >> just keeping this place functional is an enormous effort. >> the prison uses a set of regulations and procedures to maintain order. but inmates often operate under a different code of conduct. >> the inmates have what they call prison politics here and the gangs control all of that. they have written rules and regulations and the

repercussions for not following those rules are serious. >> to anyone that's doing order, they're going to hit me if they see me. they'll try to kill me, try to slice me. >> on the floor! >> sir, sir, back up, back up. watch where you walk. >> maurice, get me another box of gloves. >> the inmate had a serious cut almost all wait around the side of his head and a serious cut across his neck. it looks like two guys attacked this guy. when you've got this many guys in the yard, they can pull that stuff off without being seen.

we don't have any suspects, we don't have the weapon. >> the victim was a southern mexican gang member. but all violence in prison is gang-related. especially when you're talking about an assault where weapons were used. a guy is hurt this badly. it just doesn't happen without it being ordered or authorized by the gangs. we believe right now that it was other southerners that attacked him. he was probably in trouble for one thing or another that he did in the past, violating the gang rules and you can hear him doing their little solidarity inside the unit now. we don't know exactly what he did. hopefully we'll know in the next few days. >> if it's really important for to you get somebody, you're going to get to them. coming into prison maybe more

violent than i was. >> it's about getting physically you're a piece of america. in prison. if a new yard opens up, you're going to fight for the handball court, you're going to fight for some tables. we're going to secure that area. if you ain't a northerner, ant you come into the areas, you're going to get stabbed. it's a whole different lifestyle in here. it's complicated sometimes. >> san quentin takes in close to 350 inmates a week. they range from the most compliant parole violators to the most violent gang-affiliated career criminals. >> take everything in the can. shoes, socks, everything.

>> i mean i'm looking at the guy, i don't know what he's thinking. i don't know if he's doing 100 years, i don't know if he's doing 100 days. >> put your shirt on homes, we'll get processed, we'll change that. >> we do everybody from minimum to death row inmate. we haven't had too many incidents. the mainly the incidents down here is somehow if northern hispanic inmates cross paths and one guy maybe hasn't told us his gang affiliations and a fight has happened. >> rodriguez, out the door. >> this prison is different than any prison in the state of california. here we've got level four, level one, level two, three, mixed in the same units. the physical lay-out is different, upper yard, lower yard. it's quite confusing at times.

>> inmates who cause problems or are considered dangerous are placed in a section of the prison nicknamed adseg. >> it's short for administrative segregation. it's a prison within a prison. >> inmates housed in adseg are not allowed contact visits and must remain in their cells 23 hours a day. when they were allowed out, they are handcuffed and escorted by an officer. >> they're in trouble, gangs or violence, for our safety as well as everybody else's safety. we have them handcuffed around the back and escorted everywhere they go. >> i sent her a portrait i did of her, all in red with hearts on it like a valentine's. >> she touched my heart. that's why i get weak. that's my son. can't be with him for ten years.

you know, that's hard. >> angel rodriguez has spent two months in administrative segregation. he's automatically placed there because he's labelled a validated gang member. >> that means that administration has labeled you as being a participant or an associate of those who are known as gang members. so if you're an associate in the administration's eyes, they will lock you up. >> you know what the cameras don't see is when it's quiet and people are sitting there doing their times and it gets quieted down, we cry, too. i don't let my neighbors hear it i got to be quiet or i'll run the water, sometimes i can hear myself. that's how much i miss my girl, you know what i mean? >> doing ten years in a windowless cell with no positive stimulation and unable to touch family members is an unbearable

prospect for angel. >> i'm going to speak to administration, to get my family visits, i have somebody that i love, who loves me, i love my son. don't want him to end up in prison. i want good things for him. >> but angel faces a long and difficult process of counselor and committee meetings to get back to general population. the first of which will happen today. >> i feel they should let me out there until i disprove them or whatever, give me the opportunity. >> coming up, angel pleads his case. >> it's up to them to determine to believe me or not, right? what if i really don't know anything. >> there's a level of truth and a level of dishonesty. we'll know. >> and sergeant thompson tries to make headway in serranos stabbing case. >> when you cut someone like that, there's only one thing you're trying to do. mississippi, alabama,

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angel is currently serving a ten-year sentence for infliction of corporal injury and despite his good behavior is being housed in adseg. >> i'm talking to angel rodriguez, he's on my case load. he wants to be released from adseg, but we have information in our records that he is a validated gang member. >> even though if the gangs say angel is not a part of us, but we know him, it's up to the administration to believe it so i'm going to be stuck in the hole for a while. which limits my contact with my girl and my son. i want to get a contact visit. i don't want to be stuck back

here, especially for ten years. >> you were placed in adseg, primarily because you were validated as a gang member. i found in your file there was a lot of good information that you were a drop-out, but you were trying to get out. >> i never afl yated myself, that's just on paperwork. >> i'm sure there's paperwork that says whether or not you were active or inactive. all of these things will be looked at. that process that validates you, can undue that. but it will take some time. >> being that i was never really involved on an in-depth basis, right, seriously, so therefore if i tell the igi, whatever, i don't really know nothing. it's up to them to determine to believe me or not, right? what if i don't know nothing,

i'm stuck. >> that's going to be between you and them. what's going to happen is there's a level of truth and a level of dishonesty, we'll show. >> i don't want to do my time in the shoe again. >> it can be corroborated that you're not active, you'll be able to go to the mainline. but you have to complete the process and you have to be patient and you have to be cooperative. all right? good talking to you. >> juan perez. >> like i say, i've been down since '91. >> i feel because i have ten years to do. they're going to set me on the back burner. >> just talk. >> say what? i don't have nothing to say. you know what i mean? they probably want to see if i'll cooperate and tell them something they already know. that's what they want to see. >> i'm still going to say like i said last time. i don't know nothing. i hate it.

but i can't do nothing about it. >> i place myself in prison, so i got to go by their rules. >> if agnel decides to talk to prison officials, he'll most likely be placed in protective custody, sensitive needs yard. once an inmate debriefs, there's no going back. >> i lake to play pinochle or cut hair. i don't really run in the yard. >> george mariscol is a structured gang member to lives in sny. because this yard is a mish mash of inmates who can't function in general population. some consider it a worse place than adseg. >> this is a dirtiest place of all places, if you're a pc

you're going to be amongst the garbage of the system. we're in the garbage of the system. on the main lines if you're not a gang member or caught up in any type of control aspect. you're nothing object the main line. you could be a rapist, a child molester. >> i'm a gang dropout. you can be a transvestite, a snitch. they're going to call me a piece of [ bleep ] rat, because i've told certain things to get here. >> is your life in danger? >> yeah, if i go to the main line, if gi to the streets and someone recognizes me as gang dropout, they're going to try to hit me. which means kill me or slice me or shoot me. >> when he was younger, george might have carried out that very hit. but as he rose through the ranks, he questioned his involvement in the gang. >> it took me from '88 to '99 to figure it out was a big old lie.

misery loves company. they would like to see you as a violator doing life just like them, caught up in the system, doing life. >> you're moving my head that way. >> i'm not moving it. you're moving it. >> i want a nice little hair cut and he gives me a bald head. whatever the barber says, goes. >> i ain't got time to give him, you know, his hair is pretty short. >> a lot of these other individuals waiting before me. but i'm his celly, so i get in there. >> i was a northerner. i was a member of the northern california gang member. to be honest, i just wanted to be a gang member, to be honest. and at that time i thought, okay, i'm going to represent the neighborhood and this and this and that. no enemy is going to come step foot on our territory. but i mean, at the same time it was also just for looks when i was in school because girls like gangsters. you know what i mean? they don't like little square boys. do you know what i mean? they liked gangsters. that was part of the reason why i did too because i got a lot of attention for it.

and i loved it. i'm not going to lie. i loved it. to be honest, if i could take the time back, i wouldn't be here. >> unlike his cellmate, george, phillip still questions his decision to drop out. one month ago, he told us why he left the gang. >> my home boys like the northerners gave me contraband to hold for the house. and i was holding it and everything like that. during the process of me holding it, i lost it. so instead of just going to my home boys and letting them know, there was some violent information on that contraband that i thought was going to cause me my life or safety of my life. instead of letting everybody know, i just rolled up. i thought they were going to move on me and that's it. if i could go back and if i would have known better, that i wouldn't have to have left, i wouldn't have left. i would have stayed there. coming up, the investigative services unit shakes up the yard. >> hands on your head. going to do a little search. >> hands on your head,

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these are photos of the assault that took place on friday in badger section. inmate had some pretty serious wounds to his head made by a slashing-type weapon. >> although sergeant thompson is still searching for suspects in the gang stabbing, two things are clear. the victim was stabbed by his fellow gang members and their intent was not just to scare him. >> whether they did serious damage to him or not, they were trying to kill him. it's fairly common they'll try to cut each other in the face.

just to let him know he's no good, you try to cut somebody on the neck or throat, there is only one thing they are trying to do. there's all kinds of reasons why these guys can be assaulted by their own. we have an idea of why it is here. we are pretty positive we know. but it's an active investigation so we don't really to want disclose it right now. the next thing we will do is try to talk to the victim. the victims very frequently don't want to cooperate with us. we know very little about the suspects. we can't even positively say who it is right now. and he knows who did this and he knows why. so we will try to talk to him and see if he has anything to say and go from there. >> do you remember me from friday? sergeant thompson? i just want to talk to you about what happened. got you pretty good, huh? you know i'm just here doing my thing, right? my bosses told me to come talk to you to see what we could find out, right? >> after five minutes of questioning, it becomes clear that the victim won't share any information. sergeant thompson has no choice but to give up for now.

>> all right, man. i'm sergeant thompson in isu. just remember my name in case, all right? take care. >> hey, lock up. >> we want to get our job done and here's the guy who doesn't see the big picture. he thinks someday he's going to get his status back. i don't know what he thinks. i don't know what he could possibly think. he's just attacked. if somebody attacked me, i would be telling all day long. it was him, it was him. these guys just don't have anything to say. i don't know. >> bottom line is, when we see people out there doing gang business, challenge them. >> those inmates do not run this yard. you run this yard, and i want you as a staff to go down and take it back. basically what's happened is over the years, the department of corrections has pretty much given over control of the

general populations to gangs. i worked at san quentin at a period in my early years, and san quentin was a source of pride. people loved working here. they were proud to work here. but over a period of the last few years, san quentin had developed a very unsavory reputation in the department. we need to focus on behavior. quit wasting your time trying to validate somebody as a this or a that and focus on what they're doing. if there's something that i can do that can help the people regain the sense of self-esteem that i had in my younger days, i would really want to do that. we all know what gang behavior is. they don't have a right to do

that. and you have every -- you have a responsibility, not a right, a responsibility to challenge him and say you're not doing that. not here. not on my watch. not in my unit. not on my yard. okay. thank you. we have to keep in mind, this is a small city. the inmates are the population of the small city, and correctional officers are the police force for that small city. >> a specialized group of officers is responsible for monitoring gang activity. this is the investigative services unit or isu. >> i've been spending a lot of time challenging isu to get out and take the lead. be the spear tip out there to challenge gangsters and tell them, you can't do that on our yard. >> we're tasked to anything that affects gang activity. in-prison truck trafficking, responding to services, crime scene investigations that our prison gangs tend to cause the most problems here in the

institution. so they are mainly our focus. >> we will be putting cuffs on. so we're going to put cuffs on him and then get him out. >> if you're working in prison, it's the best job to have. these guys are self-motivated. they are out the door handling something before i even get the chance to tell them to go do it. >> i'm the runt. i'm the baby. i'm the rookie. i'm the rookie. everybody is bringing me under their wings and saying, come on, let's go learn. you see all the, i guess you can say, back stage work, where it all goes. oftentimes we will find things, weapons or kites, and you wonder where it all went after you turn it in. well, now you get a chance to see it and how investigations work and how prisons are linked, how we can link up real fast with another prison, do you have so and so there. we just got a kite on this guy.

so it's nice to see how it all works, comes together. >> anybody else want a piece of gum, make sure we don't disrespect them? fresh breath. fresh breath 101. what do they call me? big mo. mongo is the new one now. from "blazing saddles." mo? man, where do i start with mo? he is a good guy. when he first came here, he was able to share information with us. opening came up, he jumps on it. we brought him in. >> we know what we are doing. just going down to the lower yard and doing the usual things with the gangsters. warden wants us to pay more attention to the lower yard. we'll have them all walk over to the industries wall. we will pat them down. i want names and numbers on everybody. make sure you have something to write on. anybody that catches our attention, we will find their housing and go visit their house while they are still on the yard. that will be that. >> the majority of prison crime happens on the yards. isu's surprise searches are part of an effort to prevent violence. >> they are down there passing drugs. they are down there passing information. there are orders on who is to be

hit. who is supposed to be holding weapons. who is supposed to be holding drugs. that's their time to do their business. i could walk the yard and not catch half of what's going on. they are good at what they do. coming up on "lockup" -- >> you don't know what's going to happen. it could go real smooth or they could decide to soldier up. it's a little bit of a different game face.

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>> to the inmate in san quentin, it may seem like just another day on the yard. but the investigative services unit has something else in mind. and it could mean a bad day for inmates holding contraband. >> these guys can resist us. if they've got weapons on them, obviously we want to get to the weapon before they get to the weapon. we try to control their hand. we always watch their hands. they hide weapons in their mouths, you know, in their bodies. >> give us ten seconds. >> so, you know, you've got to pay attention. you've got to keep control of the situation. and just swoop in on them before they see you coming. >> gentlemen, hand on your head. this is just going to be a little search. don't pick nothing up. you guys slowly walk over towards the wall over here. gentlemen, this way. hey, mo, spread them out a little bit. >> slide down, slide down.

>> you've got one behind you. >> go ahead, gentlemen, turn around for me. take your shirt off for me. our biggest thing is safety. the less confrontation, the better. minimize any kind of threat. we're here to keep the peace. and if that means we prosecute to maintain that control and maintain that peace, then that's what we have to do. >> they are going to hold these guys on the wall. let's hit the area and see if they left anything behind. >> mainly when we are searching these guys, we are looking for weapons, obviously. we're looking for information. these guys write down a lot of information. they call them kites, the notes they write. these are the kind of areas they would hide them in. they'd rather lose the information than be caught with it. lot of times when they see a search coming, they drop them where they are at and move on. it's always fun to find something, though. it makes it worthwhile. you go through a dry period where you are -- your routine gets a little stale, but when you come up good on a search, it kind of charges the batteries.

>> i was doing my search here and inside the dirt here i found these two kites and underneath these two kites was this piece here. i believe it to be a weapon. >> is it a razor? >> i believe it to be a razor. tomahawk. so we'll take it with us. >> cool. >> another weapon. >> found another one? >> found another one. >> share the wealth. share the wealth, brother. >> we're going to go into the gym. a couple of the inmates had some tattoos indicative of gang membership. we're going to go take a look at their bunk areas, lockers, see what they may have left behind in their bunks. >> watch out. i got gloves, so watch for needles.

he's on fire. here we go. he come up with another one. that's a tattoo pattern. i'm going to try to prove myself, and i got the veteran here to my right knocking it out left and right. >> you've got a roster? >> roster. this is good stuff because a lot of time what these guys do when they are writing their kites, instead of signing their name, they will sign an aka, which is not that hard to figure out, but a lot of times i will go a step further and i'll come up with what they are identifying themselves and this is a list showing which inmates goes with along with which code. these kind of keys are invaluable. >> the officers head back to the unit to examine the weapons they found and decode the hidden messages in the kites. this newfound information could lead to an arrest in one of the many cases that is ongoing. >> we are always trying to figure out exactly how much work we are doing. we have enough work you could

double the staff at this institution and there would still be plenty of work for everybody. it never ends. >> yeah, this food sucks. prison food is nasty. that looks like some type of chicken something. in some type of sauce. doesn't look very appetizing. looks like it's going to be a canteen night for myself. because i'm definitely not eating that. >> speedy entered protective custody after dropping out of his gang, the nlr. >> we kicked it with the southern mexicans. to be a white guy and to kick it with mexicans that are basically low riders, that's where the nlr

term came from. to get into that, you have to have three different hits on three different people. i ran the organization. drug trafficking, making money, just a lot of violence and a lot of [ bleep ]. i'm in protective custody because i'm a dropout. i get to live with child molesters and rapos and weirdos, people that are mentally sick. this is what i get for debriefing. >> look, i got married. >> shy boy give it to you? >> what? >> shy boy proposed to you? >> yeah. >> people that i have met since i've been in this type of unit are in my yard. i have met people that i have actually befriended and know a lot about. out on the mainline, i wouldn't have even talked to them. we would be trying to kill each other. and now we are right next door to each other.

we eat out of the same bowl. they are my friends. we're together as one in here. >> how i met speedy gun, he was a good drawer, right, and my wife, she like art, right? that's really how we met up is he showed me some of his good work. he has good work. he can draw real good. the type of stuff that i send home to my wife and she likes that type of stuff. we cool. he's a cool cat. >> when you're not busy hating people, it's pretty cool to get to know them. because there are a lot of people that have a lot to say. they have cool stories. to not like somebody because of the way they look or because of the color of their skin is ignorant. and my ignorance shown for a long time and i'm glad i'm away from it. coming up on "lockup" -- some inmates get special attention on the sny yard.

>> they're looking at all this. it just goes along with the territory. you know? that's what you are going to get a lot of cat calling from the guys and stuff like that. and later -- >> we got information on who some of the guys are that were involved with the slashing. >> sergeant thompson prepares for an arrest in the gang stabbing case. stabbing case. brnk eucerin professional repair moisturizes while actually repairing very dry skin. the end of trial and error has arrived. try a free sample at eucerinus.com.

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here, it's not really hard because you are surrounded by a lot of men. there is a lot of men in here. you know what i mean? to a lot of men in here, we are like the closest thing to females to them. >> they are looking at me. they're looking at all this. >> it just goes along with the territory. if you are in that alternative lifestyle. that's what you are going to get, a lot of cat calling from the guys and stuff like that. and it's going to make you feel pretty. >> i'm married right now. to somebody in here and everybody knows that and so everybody leaves me alone. >> yes, i do. as a matter of fact, he's right here. this is him right here. >> what do you like about her? >> i like her personality. she keeps it real. she keeps it real all the way around. you know what i'm saying? she don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal. she's not shy. i like that.

she don't mess around and i like that. you know what i'm saying? she's a woman and a woman needs to be a woman. >> when i met him, i met him -- i had met him on the street. and he was already on parole, and i was on parole. and it took like a whole month for him to tell me that he was on parole. you know what i mean? but he finally told me that he was on parole and he had also told me that he was married. he was married. you know what i mean, to a female out there. so he had a wife when i met him, you know, but and we both ended up in here together, you know what i mean? when i seen him, i was like, wow, you know what i mean? so we decided to go ahead and become cellmates. he told his wife on the streets about me. he wrote a letter and told her about me and about a month later, she served him divorce papers. he got divorce papers served here. >> that's my number one hero. i'm always going to love her. that's going to be my number one pride and joy. ain't nobody else step in front of that. nobody.

>> i got sunblock on my hands. >> while some inmates get along together in sny, others have a more difficult time. >> i got into an incident out there where they said if i'm found guilty, they're going to take away my status. they could send me back to the shu or the main line, general population. >> one of the things that is always in the front of everybody's mind in committee is when inmate x comes in and sits down and says i have to lock up in protective custody because i don't want to play the gang politics anymore. >> if i was living in general population, i would have to stab the first person i see. if not, i'm going to get stabbed. >> well, is this really a wolf in sheep's clothing that truly wants to get into the pc unit to

hurt somebody who has already gone in there? >> this subsequent classification hearing, we are going to talk about your housing again today. >> san quentin employs a multilevel screening process before inmates are allowed into protective custody in order to ensure that the sny population remains safe. this ex-gang member is currently in ad seg for threatening a cellmate, but he wants to be returned to sny. >> there was a battery that was in 2005, the current charge, though, is of threatening another inmate. >> he doesn't want to be housed with inmates who have sex-related offenses, whether it be against women or children or such. even though he's kind of in the same boats because now he's also requesting protective custody, yes, be safeguarded from the rest of the general population. realistically whether he is a gang dropout or has sex crimes, as far as the general population goes, it doesn't really matter. but he still wants to have that mentality that he is a little

bit better than a particular inmate in the prison setting. >> did you have a problem going back out to that particular housing unit? refusing a celly? >> like i said, i was out there, never got in any trouble while i was out there. me personally, it's like if i don't know anything about you, i'm just trying to do my time and go home. i didn't mess with them. i never downtalked to them. i never picked on them. i just went over there and let everybody know that they might be. but this individual started telling me about his case, and i got my pictures on my wall of my little girl and little boy. it's kind of hard. that's why i told the co i don't want to be here with this guy. if you could please move me. like i said, i got -- >> let me just -- i'm going to tell you something you know. >> yeah. >> once you go over into special program -- >> yeah, i know. >> and because we gave you that song before you ever went over there the first time. >> yeah.

>> so you can't be going over there saying you have an issue with these kinds of people or those kind of people. that's the bottom line. i believe what we are going to do today, we are going to assess and impose a shu term for the threat. since you were found guilty of that, you can appeal that at a later time. we are going to suspend the remainder of that. the recommendation is to release you today from the shu. we are going to put you up for transfer. the recommendation is for, you are level three, so he is going to be probably a salinas valley or high desert. >> maybe you can put me up close to like folsom. >> the quickest one you can get out to is the one you need to go to right now. and you're a veteran. so we don't need to tell you this, but, you know, if you pick up anything, it's just going to delay that trend. >> that's what i've been trying not to do. >> all right. you got any other questions? >> no. that's it. >> okay. >> thank you.

>> we were satisfied that he could go back in the special program unit until he gets his transfer to where he's ultimately going to live, which is going to be a sensitive needs yard someplace. and what we tell people when they go into protective custody, once you have made that decision, you're in with all kinds of people that are -- have protective custody needs and you don't get to differentiate who can be in there and who can't. it's 5:15 a.m. at san quentin and the prison appears silent. but in the isu offices, there's a meeting planning for a surprise arrest. it's taken isu nearly two months to identify four suspects in the soranios gang stabbing. >> we've got information on who some of these guys are that were involved in the slashing, and we

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after an exhaustive investigation, sergeant thompson

is ready to make an arrest in the soranios gang stabbing case. it's 5:30 a.m. and the officers are hoping the suspects are asleep. >> hand, hands, hands, let me see your hands. >> as the suspects are led away to ad seg holding cells to be strip-searched, sergeant thompson and other isu officers comb through the cells for contraband. >> looking for more weapons, any indication of gang membership.

>> why do we hear so many toilets flushing at once? >> it is first thing in the morning, but it's a good possibility they think that they might be next, and they might be getting rid of whatever they have in their cell. you know, we are not here with the intention of demolishing their cells. sometimes they have a lot of stuff. you want to do as thorough a search as you can. sometimes that's the way it goes. >> is that a can lid? >> it looks like a can lid or something sharp.

>> shawna. >> he's the suspect in the -- you know. >> yeah. >> that's two cases for him. >> yes. >> with the search completed, isu officers have found enough evidence to make a strong case against the suspects. but the find of the day was made by officer de la rosa. >> i don't have anything to say, really. >> hopefully the stuff we are going through, we might get lucky and find enough information about the assault, just more evidence to pile onto it. i am confident that those guys are going to do some extra time for that. they are going to spend a lot of time in the shu. we are always excited to get a weapon out of there. that's almost better than the rest of this. so it's a good morning. >> even though this case is almost closed, the isu's work is far from over. >> by the time you finish up one, you've already got two or three more stacked up in front of you. so finishing this one up and moving on. he